Margot Minardi
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195379372
- eISBN:
- 9780199869152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195379372.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The epilogue follows the commemoration of Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, and other Revolutionary‐era blacks through the Civil War and beyond. It also considers how William Cooper Nell's call for ...
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The epilogue follows the commemoration of Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, and other Revolutionary‐era blacks through the Civil War and beyond. It also considers how William Cooper Nell's call for black citizenship was — and was not — fulfilled in the formation of the Fifty‐fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in 1863. Drawing on the famous monument to the Fifty‐fourth and other post‐Civil War memorials in Boston, the epilogue assesses the ongoing significance of commemorative spaces and activities in Massachusetts.Less
The epilogue follows the commemoration of Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, and other Revolutionary‐era blacks through the Civil War and beyond. It also considers how William Cooper Nell's call for black citizenship was — and was not — fulfilled in the formation of the Fifty‐fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in 1863. Drawing on the famous monument to the Fifty‐fourth and other post‐Civil War memorials in Boston, the epilogue assesses the ongoing significance of commemorative spaces and activities in Massachusetts.
Alexander Livingston
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190237158
- eISBN:
- 9780190237189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190237158.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory, American Politics
Against criticisms that pragmatism’s antifoundationalism cannot account for political convictions without collapsing into a form of decisionism, this chapter examines James’s oration on Robert Gould ...
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Against criticisms that pragmatism’s antifoundationalism cannot account for political convictions without collapsing into a form of decisionism, this chapter examines James’s oration on Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment as an exposition of the psychological and political implications of his 1896 essay, “The Will to Believe.” What this comparison reveals is a phenomenologically rich account of political conviction that situates belief as emerging from within embodied social experience rather than moral ideas alone. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of the “stutter” to capture the dynamic and relational nature of belief formation, the chapter shows how James proposes a novel way of conceiving of political conviction that steers between the Scylla of decisionism and the Charybdis of moral absolutism, or the craving for foundations.Less
Against criticisms that pragmatism’s antifoundationalism cannot account for political convictions without collapsing into a form of decisionism, this chapter examines James’s oration on Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment as an exposition of the psychological and political implications of his 1896 essay, “The Will to Believe.” What this comparison reveals is a phenomenologically rich account of political conviction that situates belief as emerging from within embodied social experience rather than moral ideas alone. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of the “stutter” to capture the dynamic and relational nature of belief formation, the chapter shows how James proposes a novel way of conceiving of political conviction that steers between the Scylla of decisionism and the Charybdis of moral absolutism, or the craving for foundations.
